Movies like Coin Locker Girl (2015)
The best movies like Coin Locker Girl (2015) are The Yellow Sea (2010), Mother (2009) and Don't Cry, Mommy (2012). If Coin Locker Girl hooked you with its drama and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHope (2013)8.4/10 from 929 votes
- NewestNight Always Comes (2025)Released 2025
- In KoreanThe Yellow Sea (2010)Also in Korean
The Yellow Sea (2010)
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMother (2009)
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Cry, Mommy (2012)
Yoo-lim, who divorced her husband and was preparing for a new start, learns that her daughter, Eun-ah, got raped by boys at school. However, they will not be punished because they are minors. Eun-ah kills herself, and Yoo-lim seeks revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Cold Fish (2011)
When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForgotten (2017)
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok's eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMonster (2014)
Bok-Soon runs a street stall, cares for her younger sister, and is feared by many because of her quick temper. When Tae-Soo murders her sister, rage consumes her completely as she stalks the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHan Gong-ju (2014)
After being involved in a traumatic incident, 17-year-old Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Uncared for by her parents, her previous teacher arranges for her to hide away at his mother's place. It takes time for her past to catch up with her, but when it does the revelation is devastating.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiss Baek (2018)
A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the cruel world. A man who holds feelings for the woman, tries to protect her in his own way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHope (2013)
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBedevilled (2010)
A disillusioned Seoul woman visits a remote island to reconnect with a childhood friend, only to find her trapped in an oppressive cycle of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. As tensions escalate, the situation spirals into a harrowing tale of survival and retribution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNext Sohee (2022)
A female detective investigates the cause of a high school girl’s death and uncovers a disturbing truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSamaritan Girl (2004)
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money, and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those men, she suppresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who's jealous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Isle (2000)
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBreathless (2009)
Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can stand up to him, feisty school-girl Yoon-hee they become unlikely friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Girl at My Door (2014)
Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrap (2015)
Jeong-min, a scenario writer, was recently dumped by his girlfriend who left for another man. No matter how much he begs she never seems to return to him. To forget everything and concentrate on his scenario, Jeong-min stays in a small inn in a remote country town. There he meets an attractive teenage girl, Yoo-mi who lives with the mysterious landlord.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
A Brand New Life (2009)
Abandoned by her father, a girl adjusts to life in an orphanage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Five (2013)
Eun-a, who was living a happy life with her family, loses everything to a psychopath serial killer. After the tragic incident, she gathers four people with different talents who are in need of organ transplants to achieve her revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Truth Beneath (2016)
For 15 days, a politician and his wife navigate a scandal after their daughter goes missing on the eve of the national elections.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPieta (2012)
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJoint Security Area (2000)
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The lead investigator receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlice in Earnestland (2015)
A young woman struggles to pay the hospital bills of her vegetative husband. Despite her hard work, there's no hope for him to ever wake up, until an opportunity arises.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Secret Sunshine (2007)
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLady Vengeance (2005)
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBad Guy (2002)
A pimp enforcer takes revenge on a woman who rejected his advances by tricking her into prostitution, but complications arise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful (2017)
Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEden (2013)
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas as a sex slave.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Always Comes (2025)
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMemories of Murder (2003)
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Coin Locker Girl?
The closest matches to Coin Locker Girl are The Yellow Sea (2010), Mother (2009) and Don't Cry, Mommy (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Coin Locker Girl?
People who watched Coin Locker Girl most often go on to The Yellow Sea (2010), Mother (2009) and Don't Cry, Mommy (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like Coin Locker Girl?
Hope (2013), rated 8.4/10 by 929 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Coin Locker Girl?
Night Always Comes (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Coin Locker Girl?
Yes: The Yellow Sea (2010), Mother (2009) and Don't Cry, Mommy (2012).
How are movies similar to Coin Locker Girl chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Coin Locker Girl, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.